But recently I've noticed that a ton of my site's hits are coming from Reddit, so I've been going on it a bit recently. The posting quality and meme-heavy stuff is more or less what I was expecting, but above all it's just really clunky looking and unaesthetically pleasing. Found a few vaguely funny/interesting links via it though.

The most confusing thing is just how big it is, and people like Barack Obama doing big question & answer sessions on there (????)

Due to it's reputation system, people are far more invested in their on-site profile/identity than they are on comparable platforms - so it's in people's interest to behave in a constructive manner, which leads to a generally really good level of discourse - anyone acting the cunt is "punished" for it via down-voting

Of course, it has a seedy underbelly, but as a gateway to good/interesting content it's among the best there is on the English-speaking internet

in that it's horrible in a way only a large group of frustrated and lonely bedroom-bound anonymous young men can be, but can also be a valuable source for just about anything vaguely geeky, in a way only a large group of frustrated and lonely bedroom-bound anonymous young men can be. Prefer 4chan, if only because they don't have a sub-forum entitled "Men's Rights".

In that 4chan has many different areas that contain completely different people and threads. There's some horrible boards on 4chan and a lot of porn, but also boards with proper conversations and lengthy posts happening.

but it isn't just that, even the whole idea of 'memes' is now outdated, you still get some templates on 4chan but they cycle through on the regular. reddit is still pissing themselves over those rage comics that 4chan made and move on from four years ago. and in general tone it's almost diametrically opposite, but i can't bring myself to continue typing on this any further.

really, my point was more just that whenever reddit or 4chan comes up on DiS there's loads of people who have this backwards idea that it's 4chan that's the homogenized meme portal full of spotty, righteous neckbeards. they're there too, but by and large, that's reddit. just seems silly to think you can have a strong opinion about something that you blatantly don't understand.